Generation AD (Attention Deficit)

Facebook and Bebo risk
infantilising' the human mind

Greenfield warns social networking sites are changing children's brains, resulting in selfish and attention deficient young people

Patrick Wintour, political editor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 February 2009 10.52 GMT

This rings true, interestingly so for social networks. Most people's aim is to boast about the quantity of friends like its a race to the end. I feel there was a difference on IM back a few years where you were honored to be on the buddy list and those IM chats could last for hours.

Facebook feels like your at one big long boring dinner party that never ends and everyone's bragging about going Skiing, City breaking or eating shit. They can't even be bothered to talk directly to you so you just get a status update, but it's pretty much rattling the stick in the swill bucket as Wells called it.

I'm sure we will see the rise of social network detox counsillors coming to save the day. Maybe they can just add it as an app.

ragboy little big planet

Build your own gaming levels and environments. And change the hero. Is this the new user makes the game age?

convergence v can't be bothered

ping saves everyone a ton of time by letting you micro blog and update all your network sites at the same time. all i need now is a mobile brand to update all the geo tagging and contextual stuff and then i just fill in the blanks. i think status there fore i am status.

kindo.com

Tired of old school friends and exs. Try kindo the family tree site.

LinkedIn secures new funding

Richard Wray
The Guardian, Thursday June 19 2008


LinkedIn, the social networking website that helps business contacts and former colleagues keep in touch, has joined the exclusive club of dotcom companies to secure a billion dollar valuation after a fresh round of venture capital funding.

The company, based just down the road from Google in Mountain View California, has received $53m (£27m) in new cash from investors in a funding round lead by private equity firm Bain Capital that values LinkedIn at $1bn (£512m). Read more...

what kids are not watching TV...

...what ever next.
Digital kids ditch homework for networking
(The Guardian)
British 15-to-19-year-olds admit spending significantly less time doing homework than they used to as a result of their use of social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, according to research published today. While teachers and parents will be dismayed, the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey also makes uncomfortable reading for commercial TV executives. It shows that not only does a significant proportion of the important 15- to 19-year-old audience watch less television as a result of social networking, but that the vast majority of Britain's 15-to-54-year-olds fast-forward through adverts when they watch programmes they have recorded. Read More...

With friends like these ...

Why facebook is rotten to the core. building a platform based on anti-trust sounds like a sure way to piss off consumers.
Pack your bags and leave for NewTown.com (i will IP it now).

Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site read the full
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With friends like these ...

Why facebook is rotten to the core. building a platform based on anti-trust sounds like a sure way to piss off consumers. Time to pack your bags and leave for NewSocial.com.

Facebook has 59 million users - and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site read the full
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The Economist will create social networking site

Part of a re think on their digital strategy, The Economist seem to be moving to a networking and conversation based information model. 3 million readers will benefit heavily from this new service.